My Writing

I am doulaing. As someone with a propensity for making nouns into action verbs, I am doulaing. That means that an extremely articulate...

I have to confess something. I am not proud of it: Sometimes I wish people would just stop talking already.  One of my favorite things in...

Can you be 80 years old and planning for your next chapter of life? You bet!!! As a Third Act Retirement Coach and End of Life Doula, I...

53,000 Americans are expected to die from colon or rectal cancer this year . I usually write here on topics of death and dying. I don't...

When I read Anne Sexton's quote "Put Your Ear Down Close to Your Soul and Listen," I must admit that I am an end of life doula for...

As we approach the end of our lives, our outside world may become smaller but our interior world can grow very large. In our elder years,...

There are more than 11 million widows and 3 million widowers in the U.S. Most are 65 or older.  Many people who have lost a partner want...

What does your life look like in weeks?  If you could see a chart that represented 90 years of human life, where would you fall on it?...

The term "compressed morbidity" doesn't sound nearly as wonderful as it is. In Eastern philosophy, it refers to someone being in tune...

Twenty months ago I ended my relationship with my partner of 23 years. Happily ended. I wanted and needed it to end. Sometimes I miss the...

It is so much fun to hear from women in their sixties and seventies that they are having the best sex of their lives! Fulfilling,...

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Greater Happiness Is Closer Than You Think I found a new groove. I got my groove on. I am in the groove. I am groovin’. But it’s not what...

About five years ago, when I was still gainfully employed and in the midst of designing a plan for my retirement, aka my Third Act, I...

Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash I almost drowned once. I did not speak of the experience for decades, nor did I get angry about it...

I relish the weekly time, each Friday afternoon, I spend with the words of the goddess Mary Oliver, whose poems fill me astonishment,...

How to Make Things Better for Both of You Photo by Danny G on Unsplash I had the unusual opportunity (more on that in another story,...

The Sins of the Father are Still With Us Photo by Tammy Gann on Unsplash One. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) The domestic violence...